Habit 1 - Be Proactive

The books below provide examples of Habit #1, Be Proactive.



*Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio

• After finding out there has never been a female U.S. president, Grace decides to run in her school's mock election, where she learns about the American electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent, Thomas, seems to be winning all the boys' votes.

*Imogene's Last Stand by Candace Fleming

• Enamored of history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory.

Just the Way I Am by Sean Covey

• When Biff the beaver makes fun of Pokey's quills, his friends help the porcupine feel a lot better about himself.

*One-Handed Catch by MJ Auch

• After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.

*Stuck by Oliver Jeffers

• Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, and he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things. Will he ever get his kite down?

*The Year Money Grew on Trees by Aaron Hawkins

• In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.